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Welcome back to My Year of Shakespeare. This week we are watching 2019's The King. Let me start by saying a pair of things that I would usually find mutually exclusive: One: I did not like this movie. Two: I think this movie was well made. I think
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Welcome back to My Year of Shakespeare, a new years resolution that has been a journey. This week we watched the conclusion of series two of The Hollow Crown, the 2016 BBC production of Richard III. I'm omitting a summary for this one — you can read through the
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Welcome back to My Year of Shakespeare, the blog series where I pretend I'm qualified to talk about Shakespeare in any way. Since this is a composite of all three parts of Henry VI, a synopsis is in order; bear with me on the brevity, a lot of
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Welcome back to My Year of Shakespeare, the blog series where I am in no way qualified to talk about the things I have perceived. This week we are starting series two of The Hollow Crown, with their first part of Henry VI that aligns poorly with the play of
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Welcome back to My Year of Shakespeare, the blog series where I pretend I am qualified to talk about a play because I've seen the movie. Henry V Henry V is the first series finale of "The Hollow Crown" and is an adaptation of the play
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Welcome back to My Year of Shakespeare, a blog series where I watch fifty-some Shakespeare adaptations, sit baffled for a couple hours, re-watch them, and then stare at an empty blog entry in my CMS until the refuse in my brain accumulates enough that I can write about
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Welcome back to My Year of Shakespeare, the blog series where I stumble my way through the adaptations of the works of William Shakespeare and pretend I have any clue what I'm talking about. This week was one of disappointments shaped like Jeremy Irons and poor ADR. Henry
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Welcome back to My Year Of Shakespeare, your favorite source for wholly unqualified Shakespeare analysis. This week we're watching the first episode of The Hollow Crown, the BBC golden-age-of-television version of the Henriad, starting with Richard II. A Hurried Synopsis I think it would be
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Welcome back to My Year Of Shakespeare, the blog series where I avoid talking about Shakespeare. This week we watched a series of non-Shakespearean works built off Shakespearean ones. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is a Tom Stoppard movie about two side characters from Hamlet — I haven't
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Welcome back to My Year of Shakespeare, the blog series where I have beef with the Wikipedia list of Shakespeare adaptations. This week we watched Renaissance Man, the Penny Marshall-directed / Danny Devito-starring Dead Poets Society-like that according to some rando who elected to be loudly wrong on
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Welcome back to My Year of Shakespeare, the blog series where I watch Shakespeare adaptations and talk about them. This week we watched Hamlet, the Ethan Hawke / Julia Stiles / Liev Schreiber / Kyle MacLachlan-starring version directed by Michael Almereyda. The movie changes the setting of the play from Denmark to
![Let the Devil Wear Black [1999] + The Lion King [1994]](https://storage.ghost.io/c/09/06/0906e901-2ada-4eb8-b183-44cd02248c1e/content/images/size/w600/2026/08/let-the-devil-wear-black.png)
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Welcome back to My Year of Shakespeare. It's been a rough past five weeks. I haven't found a lot to be complimentary about in the movies I've chosen. That changes this week. Despite being closest in adaptational lineage to China Girl (by which I